Improvement in cutting trousers



T. C LANCY. I Method of Cutting Trousers. No. 33516. Patented 0ct.2 2,- 1861.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS CLANOY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

lMPROVEMENT IN CUTTING TROUSERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,516., dated October 22, 1861.

To rtZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS CLANCY, 0f Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Method of Cutting Trousers; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a partof this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of this invention is to cut trousers, drawers, and overalls with the least possible waste'of material; and it consists in proportioning the parts and placing the patterns in such a manner that the entire material required for one-half of the trousers or overalls shall be included within two parallel lines drawn diagonally across the length of the material.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my patterns in the manner constituting my invention, I will proceed to describe more particularly their construction and operation.

The parallel diagonal lines 1) c and d e are drawn acress'the piece of cloth sufficiently far apart to include the length of the trousers without the waistband. The back and the front of one leg are made in a single piece, (represented by f 9 (Z h and are folded or creased upon the dotted line in the position usually occupied by the outside seam. The fly on the front folds over to serve as a stay, as is indicated by the dotted line, and the portion a that-o\-'erruns the edge of the cloth is taken from the remnant A. The waistband cuts from the corner of the remnant e h, and that part'for the right side of the wearer and upon which the buttons are sewed is cut on the line i, and that with the button-holes for the left side is cut at 70. The facing under the button or button-hole end of the waistband is taken from the remnant upon which it is marked, and the back strap is cut from the corner I). The patterns are then shifted on the cloth to be cut from again, and as the line cl 6 at the foot of the pattern conforms with the line bcthat has been cut from the top of the pattern there is no Waste of material arising from want of matching. In a similar manner the other half of the trousers or overalls is cut, and it will be found that the waste of material, as is illustrated on the drawing, amounts to but little more than nothing. In making low-priced goods where the percentage of gain is but small and the business is valuable only because it is extensive and multiplies a small unit of profit, the economy effected by this method of cutting is of the greatest importance. A dosen pair of overalls, for instance, that are sold for three dollars and seventy-five cents per dozen may be .cut by this method from two yards less of material than by any other pattern.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent The method of cutting trousers and overalls above described, in which one-half of the article is included within two parallel diagonal lines drawn across the material. 

